SOUTH DAKOTA NATURAL HERITAGE PROGRAM 

 Element Occurrence Record 



Scientific Name: AQUILA CHRYSAETOS 

 Common Name : GOLDEN EAGLE 



Global rank: G4 Forest Service status: 

 State rank: S4B,S3N Federal Status; 



Element occurrence code: ABNKC22010 .044 

 Element occurrence type : 



Survey site name: 



EO rank: B 

 EO rank comments : 



County : 



USGS quadrangle: MC KENZIE BUTTE 



Township : Range : 

 020N 005E 



Precision: 



Survey date : 



First observation: 



Last observation: 



Location: 



SOUTH CAVE HILLS; 10 MI N OF BUFFALO 



Element occurrence data: 



1983-TWO YOUNG OBSERVED AT NEST SITE; 1989-POSSIBLY ACTIVE, BUT 

 UNCONFIRMED 



General site description: 



PONDEROSA PINE HILLS WITH STEEP CLIFFS, MIXED GRASS PRAIRIE, SAGEBRUSH 

 AND WOODY DRAWS 



Land owne r /manage r : 

 SOUTH CAVE HILLS 

 CUSTER NATIONAL FOREST 



Comments : 



CNF#GE73 



Information source: BENZON, TED, WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST, GAME, FISH & 



PARKS, 3305 W. SOUTH ST., RAPID CITY, SD, 57701, 

 394-1751 



